{"id":2796,"date":"2021-11-04T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T18:35:42","slug":"can-police-search-a-car-parked-in-your-driveway-massachusetts-appeals-court-decides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/can-police-search-a-car-parked-in-your-driveway-massachusetts-appeals-court-decides\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Police Search a Car Parked in Your Driveway? Massachusetts Appeals Court Decides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Under the Fourth Amendment, police cannot search a person\u2019s home with a warrant, with limited exceptions. When there is a warrant issued, it must be particularized and specific. Officers are typically not allowed to search outside the limits of the warrant. The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently looked at the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/128archive.com\/Disposition\/ViewDispositionDocInHtml?dispositionId=16997&amp;ispublicview=True\"><em>Commonwealth v. Campbell<\/em><\/a><strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>where police ventured outside the scope of their warrant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What happened in the\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Campbell<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0case?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The police obtained a warrant to search the defendant\u2019s home. At the time of the search, there were three cars parked in the gravel parking lot in front of the detached three-car garage located ten feet away from the house. The search warrant made no reference to the vehicles in the parking lot. While in the home executing the warrant, the police located the keys to the defendant\u2019s car. The car was parked the furthest from the house, about twenty feet away. The officers searched the car and found thirty-two small bags containing a total of approximately fifteen grams of crack cocaine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/can-police-search-a-car-parked-in-your-driveway-massachusetts-appeals-court-decides\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can Police Search a Car Parked in Your Driveway? Massachusetts Appeals Court Decides\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Fourth Amendment, police cannot search a person\u2019s home with a warrant, with limited exceptions. When there is a warrant issued, it must be particularized and specific. Officers are typically not allowed to search outside the limits of the warrant. The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently looked at the case of Commonwealth v. 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